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July 16, 2024
An asset made available. Right. So its not like somebody is spending 15 minutes every week trying to find this person for seven years, right . No, no, no. It will be typically we look for judgment cases, specific for small volumes, well have like nine active account. Once a month theyll touch it. And it depends if they are able to identify any leads to an asset. But the judgments we are good for ten years, and we renew them up to the full 30 years. So actually on that note for Chris Jackson whos...
July 16, 2024
Roll call. Commissioner adams. Here. Clerk commissioner dooley is absent. Commissioner dwight. Here. Commissioner laguana. Here. Clerk commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Clerk commissioner you have a forum. Public comment allows members of the comment on matters within the Small Business jurisdiction but not on the calendar and suggest new items for future discussion. Do we have members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on any item not on todays agenda . Okay. Seeing none, Publ...
July 16, 2024
This time. [roll call] we expect commissioner richards to be absent today. First on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Items 1a and b at 2028 through 2030 leavenworth street, discretionary review proposed to continuance for january 16. Case 201700515, 1300 columbus avenue is proposed for continuance to january 16. Item 3 at 54 fourth street, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance. Item 4, 2255 judah street conditional use authorization at the time of ...
July 16, 2024
Economic vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters start here with the office of Small Business. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams. Here. Clerk commissioner dooley is absent. Commissioner dwight. Here. Commissioner laguana. Here. Clerk commissioner ortizcartagena. Here. Clerk commissioner you have a forum. Public comment allows members of the comment on matters within the Small Business jurisdiction but not on the cale...
July 16, 2024
And we have additional staff here if needed. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . I dont have any speaker cards. Okay. With that, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards. I missed the first part of the presentation, are these only for a rated structures under sequa . Ceqa . We are thinking these would apply to nonHistoric Resources. They would not apply to article 10 or 11. They could apply to individual resources that are a rated resources, but they would not meet the secretary ...
July 16, 2024
I want to end up with a few of the challenges that we are faced with when enforcing this. And the first and biggest being our inability to determine the truth since we rely on selfreported data from hotel owners. We encounter cooked books and second sets of books where theres the books for me and the books for the real use of being recorded. Ive already mentioned the misuse of the temporary conversion exception where hotel owners consider an entitlement. Another challenge is the limit on d. B. I...
July 16, 2024
Lastly, on the unauthorized units, weve been a big champion of these. Theres an estimate of 20 to 50,000. If you knew how many you would have to remove them. They exist in the city but they are an important housing resource. Most are rent controlled. A lot of our most vulnerable renters live in these units. We have two objectives around this. One is retain as many units as we can, protect them from merger, from demolition and conversion. The other is protect tenants rights as best we can. We thi...
July 16, 2024
Commission. Discussion around the faux saws and this is going back to 2015. The discussion of the retention related to the Historic Properties and how it had been coming out in the city and the sort of product that had been arriving through this process. In 2016, further discussion of examples. In 2017 reviewing draft policy staff had begun to develop. What was interesting was the shift in thinking from this as preservation. There is conversation if these were preservation projects. At that poin...
July 16, 2024
Situation is obviously not new to us. It is something that we find pretty commonly, particularly in this area, in this quadrant of the city. We will do our best to try and help facilitate conversations where it is possible to see if theres some kind of middleground that can be helped. I think some of it comes from both give and take on both sides of the conversation. I dont think it is a surprise, and im sure our director would share the same thing. Preservation and housing can both coexist mutu...
July 16, 2024
Of the conversation. I dont think it is a surprise, and im sure our director would share the same thing. Preservation and housing can both coexist mutually. They are not mutually exclusive of one another. The land marking of the site doesnt necessary doesnt necessarily mean it becomes a farm. The land marking is something that is separate from the city. It is more about the physical characteristics. Commissioner black . I want to say that i appreciate your comment, which is, and i dont know wher...